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prinzsorgenfrei ([personal profile] prinzsorgenfrei) wrote in [personal profile] cahn 2021-01-05 05:27 pm (UTC)

Re: Heinrich's Lookbook

Another picture that I could not stop laughing about is the Swedish one. You could go skiing on that wig. That wig is higher than the highest hills of Brandenburg.

Since we already had the nose-minimizing going on with Fritz, I wouldn't be surprised if the same thing happened with Heinrich. Although they definitely had different noses, since nobody with eyes would describe Fritz's nose as "upturned".

Among the "descriptions of his looks and character" is one that describes a typical day in the life of 1790s Heinrich, including an outfit that I need to draw:

"His dress was French and cut in the style of the 80s, in summer it was made of silk or satin, in winter of fine woolen cloth that was embroidered or decorated with braids, he was always wearing trousers or stockings of silk and shoes with big buckles. A pair of enormous watchchains was hanging down in the front, combined with a flower-patterned waistcoat, big diamond rings on the fingers, a cane with a golden head and a long silken cane-band attached to it, a small, triangular hat with a steel- or, on celebration days, a diamond pin, in his hand a golden snuffbox and some sort of small binoculars in his pocket, a powdered wig with curls and a small braid; in the mornings, apparently, a cadogan imitating his own hair, and, of course, jabots and cuffs"

Later he is described wearing "a wig with curlers and a big round hat". I love him so much.

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